North America

Edmonton's oldest craft brewery, and it got there by surviving the two decades when Alberta craft beer was not a thing anybody believed in.

A brilliantly progressive hybrid brewery and soda maker. They consistently push the envelope on modern styles in Alberta.

Ed McNally started Big Rock in 1985 specifically to give Albertans something other than macro pale lager. Western Canadian craft has a founding date and this is it.

A standout in Calgary's 'Barley Belt.' They bring intense, juicy New England IPAs and heavy fruit sours to the forefront.

The Secret 'Squatch: the hidden Sasquatch wasn't there on day one. In the early '90s, as market share slipped, a marketer noticed drinkers loved hunting the 'hidden rabbits' on Molson Old Style — so…

A Bavarian brewery that happens to be in the Alberta foothills — Hefe, Pils, Weizenbock, Radler, and an Alkoholfrei sitting in the core range rather than tacked on as an afterthought. Reinheitsgebot…

Fernie Brewing is what happens when a family barn is allowed to keep growing for twenty years. Started by the Pask family in 2003 on their own farm, moved into a purpose-built plant on Highway 3 in…

The only commercial brewery in the Northwest Territories, and the first ever established in the territory. Everything that goes into the beer — grain, hops, cans — is hauled thousands of kilometres…

Lundbreck is a village of a few hundred people on Highway 3, minutes from Lundbreck Falls, at the point where the mountains hand over to ranch country. Oldman River Brewing has been pouring there…

The benchmark of bitterness. Vinnie Cilurzo is widely credited with inventing the modern Double IPA in 1994. Pliny the Elder (first brewed 1999) became an instant cult classic; the brewery's…

The spark of a revolution. Before Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, American beer was almost entirely light, flavorless lager. Grossman's aggressive use of the then-experimental Cascade hop — piney, citrusy —…

In 1874 the North-West Mounted Police marched west and built a fort to shut down the illegal whisky trade that was wrecking the southern Alberta plains. A hundred and fifty years later there is a…

Homebrew champions who went pro and immediately started winning national awards for wild fermentation. Calgary got a serious brewery almost overnight.

Opening a taproom in the spring of 2020 was, on paper, the worst timing in modern brewing. Indoor service was banned before they could use it, so The Pass Beer Co. Started life as a pick-up window…

Two homebrewers in a backyard shed who then went and got Alberta's minimum production law changed. They rewrote the rules to make their own brewery legal.

A Calgary institution from 1996, acquired by Sleeman — and so Sapporo — in 2019. Another Alberta independent that is not one anymore.

Winnipeg craft, a decade too early. Agassiz brewed in Winnipeg from 1998 until 2002. The brand carried on until 2010, but under contract elsewhere — so the brewery entity ends at 2002 rather than…

Arcade cabinets, cartridge-era nostalgia and a solid IPA. Edmonton's most unashamedly themed taproom.

Opened in 2016 by Alex Horner and childhood friends, and one of the Barley Belt's fastest risers at around 3,000 hectolitres a year. Then on 30 January 2020 Labatt bought it, and Calgary's craft…

Upstairs on Banff Avenue, pouring to an audience from everywhere. Operated by Bearhill Brewing, which also runs Jasper Brewing — one company holding both national park towns.

Small, experimental and unusually well-regarded by other brewers — Bent Stick built its name on things other people wouldn't try.

Operating 'The Monolith,' a highly advanced, purpose-built facility dedicated entirely to spontaneous fermentation and wild ales.

Barrel-aging and sours out of Lacombe, which is not where anyone expects a serious cellar programme. Central Alberta got one anyway.

Famous nationwide for their Jai Alai IPA, they were also absorbed by Monster Energy during the massive CANarchy acquisition.

Inglewood's living room. Astroturf, mismatched furniture, dogs everywhere, and a Vanilla Cappuccino Porter that turned into a Calgary institution.

Copper kettles and local spring water made Creemore an early argument that lager could be craft. Molson Coors bought it in 2005.

A family operation in Cochrane — the Heier and Kozloski families — sitting between Calgary and the mountains on the road everyone takes to Banff.

Canada's first brewery inside a national park, and still the place everyone ends up after a day on the Icefields Parkway. Bearhill Brewing operates it alongside Banff Ave.

The largest brewer in Canada, and not Canadian. Labatt has been brewing in London, Ontario since 1847 — older than the country it sells to — and produced the beer that was Canada's best-selling for…

Known for aggressive West Coast IPAs and highly irreverent branding, fully acquired by Heineken in 2017.

Live music and a copper amber, in a city that has always supported a room where a band can actually play.

The most useful correction in this archive is also the simplest: John Molson never brewed Molson Canadian. The brewery dates to 1786; the flagship launched in 1959, a hundred and seventy-three years…

Canada's northernmost commercial brewery, and the only one in a territory covering a fifth of the country. There is no road to Iqaluit. Every sack of malt, every keg gasket and every replacement part…

A Barley Belt taproom with a proper kitchen behind it, brewing everything from Japanese-inspired rice ales to straight-ahead lager.

A brewery named after the railways, whose flagship is named after what a railway did to the most famous animal on earth. Jumbo gave English the word for anything enormous, and St. Thomas has spent…

Artists and musicians building a following on unpretentious core beers. Not every brewery needs a barrel programme to matter.

The largest brewer on earth, and a portfolio that reads as a list of things it could not become. American Ale lasted three years. Golden Wheat lasted three. Oculto lasted two. Prohibition Brew, the…

A Black-owned Tuscaloosa brewery, opened in the autumn of 2015 by Jeremiah and Jeremy Donald and closed in the summer of 2018. Good Beer Hunting documented Jeremiah Donald as co-founder and…

The legendary creators behind Two Hearted Ale and Oberon, now merged operationally with New Belgium under Kirin.

Thirteen years, from a 2011 homebrewing project to a permanent closure on 10 May 2026. It opened on University Boulevard in November 2013, in a former barbershop the founders built out themselves.…

Red Racer's pin-up cyclist has been on British Columbia shelves long enough to be furniture, and the brand now stretches across four IPAs and two lagers. Central City also distils, which is why the…

A nano-brewpub that opened at 505 13th Street in February 2013, run by Derrell and Janice Winowich, sharing a name with an 1888 brewery in the same town and connected to it in no other way. The…

Named for the island in Lesser Slave Lake. Northern Alberta brewing, five hours from Calgary and entirely its own thing.

Fat Tug did more to define what a British Columbia IPA tastes like than any marketing ever managed, and Naughty Hildegard is named for the twelfth-century abbess who first wrote down that hops…

An arcade in a brewery, or the other way round. Eighty-Eight leans hard into the fun and backs it with a genuinely broad tap list.

Undisputed masters of barrel-aging and crisp West Coast IPAs, operating under the Duvel Moortgat conglomerate.

The white whale — with an ownership twist. CBS (Canadian Breakfast Stout) began as a taproom-only experiment aged in bourbon barrels that had previously held maple syrup, and became one of the most…

Manitoba's first all-female and 2SLGBTQ+ owned and operated brewery, and an absolute breath of fresh air. Crisp traditional lagers balanced against wildly creative sours, anchoring the West Broadway…

The monumental 2011 acquisition that sparked the modern craft buyout wave, still famous for their Bourbon County Stout.

Read the list and you have read a map of Vancouver: Brockton, English Bay, Kitsilano, Cypress, Spanish Banks, False Creek, Pemberton, the Sunshine Coast. Every beer is a place you can stand in, which…

A winery and nano-brewery on Main Street in Wedowee, opened in 2021 by Scott and Brooke Bayliss. It makes both, which is why it is in this archive at all — the current site advertises brewery…

Birmingham's first brewpub, and it existed because the law changed: Alabama's Brewpub Act passed in 1992 and Magic City opened on 10 March 1995, founded by Sam Casto and Michael Wajciechowski. It…

Canada's oldest independent brewery, and it was founded by a woman. Susannah Oland began brewing in Dartmouth in 1867, the year of Confederation; six generations later the family still owns it, now…

Colorado pioneers of wind-powered brewing and Fat Tire, now operating under Kirin's global craft division.

Chad Marchand and John Minton opened in December 2019 at 656 St. Louis Street and built the place around Mobile itself — local identity, live music, room for people to be in. Three and a half years…

An Exchange District brewpub that helped make downtown Winnipeg somewhere you would go for beer, with a full brewery on site rather than a borrowed tap list. The Winnipeg Free Press reported its…

They built their own malthouse, which almost no brewery does. Controlling your own malt supply is a decade-long commitment, not a marketing line.

Opened in December 2017 at 600 Government Street and sold in May 2021 to an out-of-state brewery, with Serda's own operations ending on 1 June. The site did not stop making beer — it became Oyster…

English styles on Pembina Highway, at a moment when almost nobody else in the province was brewing them. The Winnipeg Free Press reported the shutdown in March 2024, opening the run of Manitoba…

Once the most aggressively independent voice in craft beer, famous for Arrogant Bastard before selling to Sapporo in 2022.

The undeniable anchor of the Southeast craft scene, acquired by Canadian cannabis and beverage giant Tilray in 2020.

Black Tuesday and a barrel programme most breweries could not staff, sold to Castanea Partners in 2017. A private equity firm buys a return, not a beer — which is a different relationship to a…

Opened as a nano-brewery in June 2014 and grew into a microbrewery and lounge by May 2017 — the standard modern path, walked in three years. The owners announced a permanent closure in February 2026…

A modern Trail brewery with no founding year established here. The Tailout owners purchased it in 2024, and the Trail Beer Refinery operation closed as Tailout moved into the space in 2025. The…

A highly respected sour and wild ale producer whose massive 2017 buyout by AB InBev shocked the indie craft community.

Chaleur Bay and the Acadian Peninsula, where a brewery ends up being a community building as much as a business.

Minimalist, design-forward aesthetics meet flawlessly executed ales. A beautifully crisp and clean Vancouver experience.

Ace Brewing pours in Courtenay, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Independent in Oshawa since 2014 — a working city that mostly gets skipped on the way to somewhere else.

The post-Prohibition occupant of the Royal Brewery site, producing Royal Beer at the former Honolulu Brewing & Malting plant until 1961 or 1962 — strong architectural and historical sources document…

Angry Hen Brewing pours in Kaslo, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

On the Baccalieu Coastal Drive, named for the island seabird sanctuary at the head of the peninsula.

Bad Dog Brewing pours in Sooke, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A converted farm that serves as a sanctuary for hop-heads. It’s an essential destination for hyper-fresh, soft New England IPAs.

A coffee shop until mid-afternoon and a taproom after — a genuinely smart answer to running hospitality in a city with a long winter and a short season.

Barn Hammer is a foundational pillar of Winnipeg's Wall Street industrial craft corridor. Their commitment to nailing classic malt-forward styles — especially Grandpa's Sweater — makes them an…

A Toronto brewery that files its wild ales like vintages — Intermodal is a three-year spontaneous blend, Motley Cru changes fruit each year, and the Old Primeval stouts are named for the barrel they…

Beyond the Pale Brewing Co. Pours in Ottawa, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A masterpiece of local heritage architecture — built with thousands of bricks reclaimed from local historic demolition. Black Wheat injects new life into Brandon's Westman craft scene.

Witch's Hair, Captain Howdy, Guilty Remnant, Hellflower — a Toronto brewery naming beers like a horror double bill, then quietly running one of the larger non-alcoholic lines in Canadian craft. Three…

Bobcaygeon Brewing Company pours in Peterborough, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Brazen Hall bridges the gap between high-end culinary brewpub dining and serious, large-vessel brewing. The scale of the operation matches the bold flavour profiles.

An inn, a wood-fired pizza oven and a brewery on a Green Bay island — the full destination package in a community of a few hundred people.

Captain's Log, Cosmic, Cruising Through the Galaxy, First Light — an Oakville brewery that decided on space and never wavered. Nine beers, all core, no seasonal churn: a lineup you could learn once…

Ten Peaks in the glass and the Three Sisters out the window. Nearly every beer here is a place — the Valley of the Ten Peaks, the Highline trail, the Bow River, Railway Avenue, and Georgetown, which…

The Hamilton brewery that turned its labels into a rotating gallery — every can carries a different artist or musician, so the packaging is the point and the beer has to keep up. It does: eleven core…

Copper Brewing Co. Pours in Kelowna, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

An enormous destination farm brewery dropped into Huron County farmland, built at a scale that only makes sense if you intend to be the reason people drive out.

A one-man nano operation doing oak-fermented, bottle-conditioned mixed-culture ales — 60 degrees north, skipping pale ales and lagers entirely to make the most patient beer in the territory. There is…

If you want boundary-pushing adjunct stouts and ultra-fresh hop experiments in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, Devil May Care is the sanctuary. They never play it safe.

Devil's Bath Brewing pours in Port McNeill, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Dominion City Brewing Co. Pours in Ottawa, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Hamilton's other art-forward brewery, and the one publishing an ABV for everything on the board. The Chuggy line is the interesting move — four fruit versions of a 2% 'extra light beer', which is a…

Fisher Peak Brewing pours in Cranbrook, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Raving Loops of Computer Music. 12 Minutes to Destiny. Velvet Bubble Lord. Sparklepuff. A Barrie brewery that has never once reached for a sensible name, and somewhere in there is a Chocolate…

Taylor DeBoer and Patrick Small held their grand opening at 2616 Third Avenue South on 22 October 2016, and later moved to 3501 First Avenue South. Ghost Train closed temporarily in July 2024 and was…

Gladstone Brewing pours in Courtenay, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Czech lager and Japanese ingredients in Toronto's east end, which sounds like a gimmick until you see the beer names: Desítka and Tmavý Ležák are Czech pub measures, Kakkō and Kawasemi are birds, and…

One of Ontario's original craft breweries, still independent, and now brewing more aggressively than breweries a third its age. Longevity did not make it cautious.

Grey Fox Brewing pours in Kelowna, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Henderson Brewing Co. Pours in Toronto, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Bringing dedicated craft brewing directly to Winkler, Heritage Farms bridges rural agricultural pride with clean, accessible beer.

Fifteen beers in the core range, which is unfashionably many, and not one of them a hazy chasing a trend — a Dortmunder, a Czech half-dark, an Irish stout, a British ale. Sean Hoyne brewed in…

A Junction brewpub from 2012, back when the Junction going wet at all was the news. Indie Alehouse has stayed stubbornly itself while Dundas West gentrified around it.

The ultimate destination on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. A fresh IPA on that rooftop patio with the lake breeze coming in is a quintessential Manitoba rite of passage.

The only brewery in Labrador. Iron ore country, reachable by the Trans-Labrador Highway or a plane, brewing for the Big Land.

Kettle River Brewing Co. Pours in Kelowna, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Kilter mastered the modern hype-beer aesthetic in Winnipeg. Fruit-forward slushy sours and hop bombs that are visually stunning and surgically balanced.

Land & Sea Brewing pours in Comox, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Eephus is a junk pitch thrown so slowly it insults the batter. Oppo is hitting to the opposite field, a squeeze play scores a runner by bunting, and the Mendoza Line is the batting average below…

Brewing out of a historic courthouse in Edmundston, deep in Madawaska where the province speaks French and the borders with Quebec and Maine are a matter of daily life rather than geography.

Housed in a gorgeous turn-of-the-century brick building, LBJ proved that focusing deeply on a single flagship icon — 1919 Pale Ale — while perfecting European styles could conquer a market.

Low Life is a playground for funk and acidity. If you're tired of clean IPAs and want complex, barrel-aged, mixed-culture sour work, this is the mecca.

Belgians and blueberry stouts on the shore of Lac-Saint-Jean, where the blueberry is a regional identity rather than an adjunct.

Mighty Peace Brewing pours in Fort St. John, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Independent in Revelstoke since 1996, in a mountain town of eight thousand people. That is a small base to build a brewery on.

Mad Tom and Major Tom, Detour and Tread Lightly — cottage-country beer named for the going rather than the arriving. Muskoka has been Ontario's summer-weekend brewery since 1996, and Detour, a…

New Ontario Brewing Co. Pours in North Bay, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Naughty Neighbour is the one that travels — a pale ale that became Burlington's export to every Ontario fridge — but the core range now runs to a lager, a sour, a dark and a pink lemonade beer, which…

On the Conception Bay Highway, serving the long ribbon of communities running west out of St. John's.

Bringing quality independent craft beer to the Parkland region, Obsolete is a vital regional anchor that proves great beer belongs far beyond the perimeter highway.

A modern lounge more than a taproom — Odd Company bet that Edmonton wanted somewhere to sit properly.

OGC nails the holy trinity of a great brewpub: real food from the kitchen, an inviting neighbourhood atmosphere, and award-winning beer that never misses.

The legendary first craft brewery to put their beer in a can, now owned by Monster Energy following the CANarchy buyout.

Oxus is an unsung hero of clean brewing technique — crisp, traditional European lagers and ambers that satisfy purists and convert macro drinkers. It also hosts other people's brands, making it…

Prince Edward County built a wine tourism economy and then discovered people also wanted beer. Parsons farms for it.

Prince Eddy's Brewing Co. Pours in Picton, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

RAD Brewing pours in Comox, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Red Arrow Brewing pours in Duncan, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A community taproom in the middle of the province, on the Red Deer ale trail that nobody outside Alberta has heard of and everybody in it has driven.

At the junction of the Trans-Canada and the Viking Trail, which makes Deer Lake the natural distribution point for the whole west coast. No taproom; the beer travels instead.

Royal City Brewing Co. Pours in Guelph, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

On the main street of a town famous for three churches in a row, brewing beer and cider for a coastline that fills with tourists every July and empties every October.

Brent Cole and Daniel Yant released their first beer around 2013, then moved into Yellowhammer's former brewery and bought much of its equipment — a brewery furnished by its predecessor. Straight to…

Named for the mountain range where the Red Deer River starts. Central Alberta's barley country, brewing with it deliberately.

High rotation and experimental dark beer in Muskoka — cottage country, where most breweries would settle for a summer patio lager.

The first or last brewery on the island depending which way you're driving off the Port aux Basques ferry. James Blonde 00709 took gold at the Canadian Brewing Awards — 709 being the area code the…

Alongside Black Wheat, Section 6 turned Brandon into a legitimate craft beer destination, with clean modern hop profiles for western Manitoba beer geeks.

Dog-friendly by design in a town where everyone has one. Canmore's second brewery, and the one you can bring the whole trailhead crew to.

Sherbrooke's brewpub in the old train depot — the Estrie's most reliable pint.

Built directly into a limestone hill, brewing hyper-local lagers and pale ales with 100% Ontario-grown malts.

Named for the peninsula lying across Thunder Bay's horizon. Northwestern Ontario is closer to Winnipeg than Toronto, and the beer scene reflects that independence.

Small Gods Brewing pours in Sidney, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Sookram's packs enormous personality into a cozy South Osborne footprint. Desert Island IPA and Cult Classic Pilsner are masterclasses in balance and drinkability.

Twillingate is iceberg alley, and Split Rock's deck looks straight out at it. A pub named for the stage heads the whole fishery was built on.

The province's pioneer craft brewer, started in Carbonear in 1995 as Freshwater Brewing. No taproom — you find Storm in the old downtown pubs, the Duke and the Ship, which is exactly where it belongs.

A dominant Southeast brand recently offloaded by Molson Coors and acquired by Tilray Brands.

The beautiful disaster that started the haze craze. Heady Topper is widely credited as the spark for the New England IPA. When Tropical Storm Irene flooded the original brewpub in 2011, the Kimmichs…

Aggressive, metal-inspired, and heavily hyped. This is the premier spot in Ontario for massive pastry stouts and hazy IPAs.

Tin Whistle Brewing pours in Penticton, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Hintonburg's brewery, and one of the reasons Wellington West became a place you'd cross Ottawa for.

Torque is woven into Winnipeg's sports and neighbourhood culture. A reliable, unpretentious core lineup that lives in backyard coolers across the province.

A south-side brewery with a real kitchen, and a white stout that gets ordered mostly out of curiosity and repeated out of loyalty.

The undisputed kings of the hazy New England IPA, operating on a hyper-successful direct-to-consumer model.

They built a Belgian brewing tradition in Quebec from nothing in 1990, then sold to Sleeman in 2004 and on to Sapporo. The beers are still exceptional. The ownership is Japanese.

Founded as Brick Brewing in 1984 — the first new brewery in Ontario in decades, and the one that made the others look possible.

Canada's oldest independently owned microbrewery, brewing in Guelph since 1985 and never sold. Four decades of turning down offers.

Small-batch brewing just off the Trans-Canada in Pasadena, sold to go rather than poured on site.

Ottawa Valley whitewater country — a brewery built for people coming off the river, which is a specific and reliable kind of thirst.

Wild North Brewing Co pours in Creston, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Lager, hazy IPA and spirits on the same rural Ontario acreage. Farm-based production is the oldest model in brewing and one of the hardest to run now.

Five floors of a Water Street heritage building, named for the Irish faction that once fought over this corner of St. John's. Downtown's brewpub, and the first stop off a cruise ship.

4 Mile Brewing pours in Victoria, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Seaweed, saltwater and island herbs on the Magdalen Islands. Terroir gets talked about constantly in beer and demonstrated almost never.

Abandoned Rail Brewing Co pours in Penticton, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Boneshaker is the one that carried them — an unfiltered IPA at a time when Toronto lager was the safe bet — and it has since spawned a Hazy Eclipse and a Juicy Haze of its own. Bicycles and space…

Famous for aging beer in oak foudres. Their A Deal With The Devil barleywine remains a legendary whale in global craft beer.

A massive catalyst for the D.C. Area craft boom, celebrated for their wild can art, heavily fruited sours, and aggressive IPAs.

Official site identifies active Airdrie brewing company/taproom established 2021 with current beer menu; AGLC warehouse list corroborates current producer entity. Production evidence: ACTIVE.

Backcountry Brewing pours in Squamish, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Backroads Brewing Company pours in Nelson, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Barkerville Brewing pours in Quesnel, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Barley Mill Brew Pub pours in Penticton, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Barley Station Brew Pub pours in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Bayview Brewing Company pours in Ladysmith, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Beach Fire Brewing pours in Campbell River, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A constantly rotating tap list is a promise to keep working. It is also the hardest possible way to run a brewery.

Independent brewing in Amos since 1999, deep in Abitibi. Staying independent is easier when you are seven hours from the nearest big market, and much harder to fund.

Beva Brewing & Blending pours in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

The modern one, sharing a name with an 1889 brewery it has no connection to whatsoever. At 3118 Third Avenue South, with John Zanteson as brewmaster, making the Red Mountain beers and…

Current official site publishes year-round and seasonal beer lineup; current specialist brewery source shows open taproom and recent 2026 batches; AGLC June 2026 warehouse list includes Boiling Oar.…

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Brandon's first brewery, and three names for one business: the Manitoba Historical Society documents the 1885 Brandon Brewing Company becoming Spring Brewery after its sale in 1887 and later simply…

An absolute powerhouse of the modern Quebec scene. Travelers willing to brave the line-ups will find arguably the best hazy IPAs in Canada.

The godfather of the modern BC tasting room. Their experimental, small-batch releases make every visit unique.

A Colorado classic originally bought by AB InBev, then offloaded to Tilray Brands in a massive 2023 portfolio purge.

Bright Eye Brewing pours in Kamloops, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Camp Beer Co. Pours in Langley, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Category 12 Brewing pours in Victoria, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

One of the most seriously powered-down breweries in America — solar thermal and photovoltaic, in central Wisconsin, done for a decade before anyone thought to market it. The barrel-aged Brewer's…

Checkerhead Brewing pours in Shirley, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Independent in Etobicoke since 1997, quietly, through every boom and shakeout since.

Cumberland Brewing Company pours in Cumberland, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A fiercely dedicated Belgian-style sanctuary. They ignore the IPA craze to sweep national awards with world-class ales.

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Dead Frog Brewery pours in Langley, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Deadfall Brewing Company pours in Prince George, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Deadhead Brew Co pours in Duncan, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Leveraging its unique seaside location and famous town name to become a massive tourist destination taproom in Atlantic Canada.

Dog Mountain Brewing pours in Port Alberni, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A Seattle staple famously known for Space Dust IPA, controversially bought out by AB InBev in 2015.

Empty Keg Brew House pours in Merritt, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Encore Brewing Company pours in Cranbrook, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

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They grow their own barley and hops on the Manitoba prairie. Estate brewing is claimed often and actually done almost nowhere.

Firehall Brewery pours in Oliver, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A Delta farm-field brewery that built its name on saison and sour at a time when British Columbia wanted IPA, and then quietly got very good at pilsner too — including one brewed with oysters.…

Fox Mountain Brewing Co pours in Williams Lake, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Maple Bacon Coffee Porter was either the beginning of pastry beer or the moment it went too far, depending who you ask. Constellation bought them in 2017, which settled the commercial argument if not…

On the Halifax seaport since 1997, back when East Coast craft was a handful of people arguing that Atlantic Canada would drink something other than macro lager.

Giant's Head Brewing pours in Summerland, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Specializing in Belgian-style ales and rustic farmhouse brewing, acting as a critical cultural hub in Fredericton.

Home of Corona and Modelo. AB InBev owns it globally, but the US rights were sold off permanently — which is why Constellation prints money.

Manitoba's craft trailblazer, founded 2006, and the brewery every other one in this province followed. It closed in May 2025 — down from fourteen staff to two, killed by what one industry executive…

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Herald Street Brew Works pours in Victoria, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Repeatedly named the best brewery in the world, producing exquisite farmhouse ales on remote ancestral land.

Hornby Island Brewing Company pours in Hornby Island, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Iron Road Brewing pours in Kamloops, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

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Kelowna Beer Institute pours in Kelowna, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A massive driving force in the modern Newfoundland scene, heavily focused on American-style IPAs and fruited sours.

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Started in a shed in the Mad River Valley and got so far ahead of its own capacity that the flagship had to be brewed in another state. Contract brewing is usually treated as a compromise; here it…

Lillooet Brewing Company pours in Lillooet, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Luppolo Brewing Company pours in Vancouver, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Heavy Belgian ales, brewed hard, with no interest in being acquired. Dominus Vobiscum is a beer that assumes you are paying attention.

A legendary taste of the Gaspé Peninsula. They perfectly balance historical styles with true maritime terroir.

Microbrewery

A serious industrial brewery — designed by August Maritzen, the architect whose plants stood in brewing cities across America — at North Water and Adams streets from 1891. Its history is really the…

Mount Arrowsmith Brewing pours in Parksville, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Neighbourhood Brewing pours in Penticton, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Certified organic since 1991, which in the Kootenays is less a marketing position than the local default. Silver King and Valhalla are the mountains above the town; Bent Pole and Joyride are what you…

Microbrewery

Famous for their aggressive feline branding while absolutely dominating the hazy double IPA market in Quebec City.

A highly aesthetic, moody masterpiece in Winnipeg. They offer an award-winning, premium Belgian experience on the prairies.

Off The Rail Brewing Co pours in Vancouver, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Founded by Buko von Krosigk and Jakob Tobler. Brewery remains at its original Vernon rail-side site; Sleeman also uses Vernon capacity for additional portfolio production. Legal entity: Okanagan…

The first brewery in Alberta started by maltsters. They malt their own grain and then brew with it, which collapses two links of the supply chain into one building east of Calgary — the shortest…

Over Time Beer Works pours in Kimberley, British Columbia. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.